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During the Summer of 2014, customers and employees of Market Basket boycotted the company, demanding that the board of trustees reinstate Arthur T. Demoulas, the beloved president and CEO of the grocery store chain. This week, we tell the story of that protest, which is a good reminder that the people sitting around a boardroom table aren’t the only ones who own a company.

Two months ago, Meerkat didn’t even exist. Today, the live-streaming app has over 700,000 active users, including celebrities like Jimmy Fallon and Madonna. Meerkat founder Ben Rubin sits down with HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe to talk about how they grew so big so fast, how they’ve kept growing despite being cut off from Twitter’s graph, the decision to pivot the entire company in just five days, and why we should care about live-streaming.